So SW, did you buy anything from Steam Winter Sales?

Some of the sales are a hit or a miss for me but overall, I bought five games that were on sale:

1. Just Cause 3 $14.99
2. Rainbow Six Siege $24.99
3. Deus EX Mankind Divided $19.79
4. Ys Origin $4.99
5. Transformers: Fall of Cybertron $9.99

Dunno if I'll get anything else. I kinda spent money on some console games as well. What did you get?

no

Nope.

Eve Valkyrie was 20% off. I figured I would compare it to the PSVR version. Other than that, nothing. Besides Vive VR stuff, I'm moving to console gaming anyway.

explain

The Last Remnant
MK9: Komplete Edition
Enemy Front
Burnout: Paradise

Don't know what else to buy, really.

Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds

Heretic/Hexen Collection

Aliens vs Predator 2000

Sonic CD

Unreal Tournament: GOTY

Wolfenstein Collection (3D, Spear of Destiny, Return)

Overture

Beyond Good and Evil (double dip)

No, I've got enough to finish on my PC, and new games on my consoles - just have to resist

I got Doom. Well worth the $20 I spent on it.

Nope .. so many games , so little time

alien isolation, star wars battlefront, axiom verge,seasons after fall, lyne, lakeview cabin collection

I think he is going crazy. Better bring in a shrink.

Yeah got DOOM, finally.

Yes!! I also got Rainbow six siege

Nah.

PC gaming is falling apart. PS VR and PS4 is where it's at.

I've done really well on my backlog in 2016. I'm avoiding Steam so I don't ruin all my progress :P

Seriously, I need to buy single games I know I'll love (like Last Guardian, Mass Effect, Red Dead, Zelda, etc) rather than buying swathes of dozens of games that I might not even play!

Next year, i'll have a look, but so many games to play so little time for it :/

Oh be quiet, jesus christ...

You people couldn't remain objective if you were paid to...

No, not yet anyway. There's a bunch of fighters and shmups sitting in my wishlist, but I already have enough on my plate atm. The only AAA game I'd consider getting is the new Deus EX, but I probably wouldn't finish it like Human Revolution.

Best VR experience (the rift is so uncomfortable and there are no games for the vive). Best exclusives. PC wishes it had games like The Last Guardian.

• 20XX
• LISA
• Freedom Planet
• Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
• Axiom Verge
• BattleBlock Theater
• Daikatana
• Danmaku Unlimited 2
• DuckTales Remastered
• Ikaruga
• KAMUI
• Kero Blaster
• Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
• Roche Fusion
• Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut
• Strider
• Shantae and the Pirate's Curse

Double Fine Bundle, and a few RPGmaker games, that's all. To be honest other sales were way better than this one.

Good luck beating that, prepare to scalp yourself.

I got Soma and Firewatch.

Probably wont play them anytime soon since I have to finish some games first.

Walking dead season 3

Rise of the tomb raider

That's it for now might pick up firewatch too

This will be the first sale I will buy nothing, I've got far far too many games and at the moment I'm concentrating on the Xbox

Not yet, But I was thinking of picking up Furi. Anybody here have an opinion on that game?

The Witness

Inside

Gifted Salt + Sanctuary to a friend.

Quake 4, RAGE, Kingdoms of Amalur: The Reckoning and Front Mission: Evolved.

You must be joking!

Nope, managed to completely avoid it, no impulse buys this time lol.

Though I did buy a physical copy of Dishonored 2 that @Blabadon tipped me off to. Really cheap deal on it, though it felt weird buying a physical PC game in 2016 lol.

It wasn't on sale, I bought the Street Fighter V Holiday pack.

because HDR support on console games and not PC.

his words, not mine.

i wasted all my money on my tv this holiday lol...

ill get all the stuff i need in the spring sale :P

FFXI

Dying Light

Have fun with LISA................

I spent 0 dollars. Steam sales never really get to me unless it is a game I've been dying to get.

Fallout Classic Collection $6.59

I got everything I wanted 10 sales ago.

I was looking for a GS scored 10/10 AAAAE excluive to buy or a recent GS PC excluive GOTY, but there hasn't been any, so no.

I grabbed Arkham Knight premium edition, figuring the worst bugs should be squashed by now, and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.

I said I was playing FH3 on Xbox One because of HDR and the iffy PC performance at the time. HDR has little to do with my decision.

I will still be gaming on PC, but I will be buying/playing games primarily on consoles for one reason. My family and friends all play on the consoles. Yes, the resolution, framerate and graphical improvements have their advantages. But when I moved to playing multiplats only on PC, I spent a lot of time gaming alone. So in order to play with others I know, I had to double-dip and buy games more than once. With my backlog getting out of control, double-dipping has to stop. My PC will be a Vive box from here on. I don't play CS GO or Overwatch on PC, so the community has no bearing on my decision. I currently enjoy Titanfall 2, Watch Dogs 2, Final Fantasy XV, Forza Horizon 3, Madden 17 and NBA 2K17. With PS4 Pro and Xbox One S, I get what I need with these titles. Of the games available on PC, are they better there? Yes. But the margin doesn't match the cost. I have over $700 worth of GPUs and a $900 CPU. I feel like I can't justify this stuff any more. The digital foundry PC vs PS4 Pro comparisons don't show me a difference of hundreds of dollars. Really the only thing keeping me going at this point is benchmarking contests.

We are getting to the point where we have to pause the game and nitpick differences. That's fun and all, but with my busy schedule and hectic family life, I can let that stuff go. I can admit games like Battlefield 1 look disgusting at times on Xbox One and a lesser extent on PS4 Pro. But my KDR is nearly the same no matter where I play. (bad!) The difference? My peeps play the game on consoles. And that makes the experience better.

So I take it you're buying Scorpio?

A TON of VR games and Ys Origins, since it looked interesting.

Refunded a couple of them already though. Good thing trying is risk-free.

Might No. 9.

Yes, I know it reviewed badly. But I just wanted to see for myself.

Not yet. Was thinking about getting Axiom Verge. And maybe Street Figher V, but then I remembered the game isn't finished. I might as well wait a bit longer for a completed version. Or skip it if they don't do a completed version.

I can relate to playing with friends and family. However, I tried playing games like BF4 with friends on console and the frame rate and the downgrade in controls/visuals were terrible. I couldn't do it. Games like FH3 can be played cross play. TF2 same story as BF... need proper controls. Watch Dogs 2 performance is not good enough on console. Too many compromises on console. PC is my primary platform and same goes for my brother. We both own the consoles, but rarely play them aside from NHL, Forza and the exclusives. I have plenty of friends who I play with on PC, so there is no shortage of people to play with. Some of my other friends only have consoles, but I just do other activities aside from gaming with them. I leave it up to them to get a PC if they want to play with me. I have even built rigs for friends to get them gaming on PC and they love it.

I agonised long and hard over my buy list. Decided to hold off on Dark Souls III until all DLCs are out. Still have doubts about Life is Strange, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada and Homeworld. In the end, I went for these:

Stellaris + Plantoid Species DLC

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

Abzu

Final Fantasy X/X-2 Remaster*

Endless Legend - Tempest expansion pack

* Yes, I know there are probably better Final Fantasy games, but I've only played minutes of VII and VIII. In contrast, I must have put in about 16 hours into X on a friend's PS2. I have unfinished business with this game.